2023 Thomas Howard Lecture

Felix Culpa, Happy Fault

Master, was this man guilty of sin, or was it his parents, that he should have been born blind. Neither he nor his parents, Jesus answered; it was so that God’s work might be made evident. John 9:1-3 There was ...
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/ Dr. Patrick

From the Archives

Originally Presented at Text & Talk, August 15, 2020 George Orwell, Democratic Socialism, and 1984 Eric Arthur Blair, who later became George Orwell,  was born in 1903 in Motihari, Bihar, British India.  His great-grandfather, Charles Blair, was a wealthy country gentleman in Dorset who married ...
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/ Dr. Patrick, Text&Talk

Come, Lord Jesus

  “From that time on, Jesus began to preach and say,
"Repent, for the kingdom of Heaven is at hand
                                               ...
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/ Dr. Patrick, Thoughts on Gospel

Thoughts on the New Year

And a voice from the throne said, “Behold I make all things new.” Revelation 21:5 New Year’s Day has not always been January 1, for during the long Middle Ages it was the Feast of the Annunciation on March twenty-fifth ...
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/ Dr. Patrick, Thoughts on Gospel

You Are God’s Project: Merry Christmas

God created man in His own image; in the image of God he created him. God
breathed into his nostrils the breath of life. And he walked in the Garden in
the cool of the day, and He called Adam's name. "Where ...
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/ Dr. Patrick, Thoughts on Gospel

To Every Saint His Time

“Who are these wearing white robes, and where did they come from?” I said to him, “My
lord, you are the one who knows.”
He said to me,
“These are the ones who have survived the time of great distress;
they have ...
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/ Dr. Patrick, Thoughts on Gospel